Stonewalling the Wall

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is mocking “the very dopey people” contributing to a GoFundMe campaign to support President Donald Trump’s southern border wall.

All Kimmel’s got to lose by insulting supporters of the wall is his ratings. But Democrats are risking a voter backlash by stonewalling Trump’s request for border funding and claiming that only racists and xenophobes want a wall.

More voters name illegal immigration as the most urgent problem for Congress to fix than any other issue, according to the latest Rasmussen national survey. A staggering 21 percent of those polled say they’d contribute their own money to build a wall if Congress refuses. No wonder the dollars are pouring in.

The GoFundMe campaign raised a staggering $16 million by Sunday, the third-largest haul in history. It was launched by Air Force vet Brian Kolfage, who lost three limbs in combat in Iraq and received a Purple Heart. Watching Kimmel, who has no record of military service, ridicule Kolfage’s cause is nauseating.

The point is that Kimmel’s rant is typical of the bicoastal elite. They’re indifferent to problems affecting average working Americans, including the threats posed by open borders. As illegal immigrant families flood into our communities, public schools and social services are stretched thin. Place a migrant child who speaks no English and lacks school skills in a classroom, and all the teacher’s attention has to be focused on that one child. The other kids lose out. The elite don’t feel it. Hollywood big shots don’t send their kids to public schools.

More than half of voters think illegal immigration is a strain on the U.S. budget and believe a wall should be a part of the solution, according to Rasmussen.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, soon to be speaker of the House, is out of touch with these Middle American concerns. That’s why she made the embarrassing mistake in last week’s face-to-face meeting with Trump of predicting he’d never get enough votes in the House for $5 billion border funding. She was wrong. On Thursday night, the House approved $5.7 billion for the wall, and sent the measure over to the Senate on Friday.

There it has stalled, because it needs nine Democratic votes to pass. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is vowing no votes from his party for border funding. As the stalemate drags on, the government is officially shutdown, because border funding is part of the overall appropriations package to keep the lights on and the paychecks flowing. Trump has signaled willingness to compromise on the dollar figure. But Democrats reject any compromise. “If you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall,” Schumer said on the Senate floor Saturday.

Democrats insist that a wall is racist and immoral. Don’t fall for it.

Last week, Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., slammed Republicans for wanting a wall with Mexico but not Canada “the country filled mostly with white people.” Murphy’s dishonesty is staggering. He’s not admitting that 521,090 people were apprehended illegally sneaking across the southern border in 2018, compared with a paltry 324 people crossing illegally from Canada, according to Homeland Security. The wall is needed on the southern border because that’s where the lawbreakers are.

As Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pointed out, insisting on no border wall is like demanding no TSA agents at airports. Ridiculous.

Meanwhile, not a creature is stirring at the Capitol during Christmas, and the earliest a compromise could be reached is Dec. 27, though it could drag on much longer.

No matter how it turns out, Democrats are smearing large swaths of voters as racist and immoral because they support the wall. It’s a repeat of when presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Trump supporters could be put in a “basket of deplorables,” meaning racists and xenophobes. Sixty days after she hurled that insult, she lost the heartland states and with them the 2016 election.

The debate over the wall is like Deplorables Redux. Democrats take note. Insults are not a winning strategy.

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York State. Contact her at betsy@betsymccaughey.com. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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Out with the old man 2018 Year, in with the New Year 2019 baby, who to most Democrat Liberals is just something else innocent to be aborted, its life shut down and its head slammed against an immigration border wall. Democrats are the party of human and government death who just turned our House of THE PEOPLE into the political version of Planned Parenthood, where they kill and abort the very thing that defines live government, just like they kill and abort the very thing that defines and creates an American family. These people killers and society killers ARE the enemy of THE PEOPLE, just take an immigration death count of the innocent whose current numbers are in the tens of thousands, brought on by people who on the one hand encourage you to use prophylactics to shield the conception of infant life and shield you from disease in actions of unnatural sex, yet refuse to use a border wall prophylactic to shield you from unnatural potentially diseased lawbreaking individuals who thanks to the Democrats we now have no protecting prophylactic shield to wall off the potential crimes and infections brought on by their unnatural approach to government which leaves THE PEOPLE totally vulnerable. The blood and death are on their hands,,,,,,Pelosi, Schumer, Obama, Reid and the rest who love their skin color, gender and power more than their own American children they were elected to protect, even the adult ones, and especially the sane successful ones who bring AMERICAN life to a Democrat debilitating nation who would wall off THE HOUSE of THE PEOPLE from workable government compromise and protection.

Sure they slow down the boarding procedure, get all personal with your feet, and maybe plaster your body up on the screen with their Big Naked X-ray system, but have they ever once captured a terrorist? No. No they haven’t.

Every terrorist captured while attempting to board a plane since the inception of the TSA has been the result of everyone EXCEPT the TSA being super vigilant.

The TSA is yet another wasteful govt program that can be eliminated completely.

DrGadget, Very well said. I have a opinion concerning the wall, which would call for the existing wall, which quite evidently doesn’t’ stop them from climbing it, should have the top 5 feet on the Mexican side, sprayed with a heavy coating of WD40, or similar slippery substance. Even diesel fuel could be used, along with many other alternatives. I am quite sure when they have climbed to that point, and their hands grabbed for the next section, that the next action will be quite unpleasant. Just sayin!!! At least this would make those sections which have a wall, most effective, until the new wall is built.

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ltuser

2:12 am January 4, 2019 at 2:12 am

What irks me off, is MANY liberal gamers i know, every time someone brings up the “wall”. Seem to think “WHAT idiots still want a wall, when the facts show that all walls are useless.
YET IF That was the case, why then have we seen MORE AND MORE Walled in and gated housing communities in the past 30 years than we ever had in the prior 80. AND WHY IS IT every prison has 2 walls around it to keep prisoners in?
IF walls suppsedly don’t work, then let’s take them down EVERYWHERE.

Now i DO agree with some, who have asked “IF this wall was so bloody important, why wasn’t it done sooner”…
To which i keep reminding them of the fact dems KEEP SAYING “Give us this NOW, and maybe later we will discuss giving you XYZ some time in the future”.
A FUTURE that seldom if ever seems to materialize.

“Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., slammed Republicans for wanting a wall with Mexico but not Canada”

What’s the Canadian version of the MS-13 gang?
*cricket*
*cricket*

Canadians aren’t a threat to America. Canadians have a similar standard of living, similar govt benefits, and more extensive govt health care system. For freeloaders, it would be a step down to invade America. Plus the people on both sides of the border speak mostly the same dialect.

Many in Quebec speak French. The border there is a fraction of the northern part of New York, and the northern borders of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. There are no cities in these states that have been so overrun by French that it’s hard to find someone speaking English.

That leaves mostly states out West like Montana. You never hear about invasions there. There are no Ronil Singh policemen getting ganked.

Canadians have it pretty good. The ones with talent often have dual citizenship so they can go back and forth. Why would they risk all that to break the law and sneak across the border?

Mexico has a lower standard of living and far fewer social bennies. This provides a dual magnet to draw them over the border.

How do you figure Canada isn’t a threat?? Several articles on this site even, showed JUST HOW Much border patrol itself, is worried about our northern border, and how easy it is to cross IT compared to our southern one.
ADD TO THAT, the # of mudslimes and others, canada’s accepting in, and we need to watch IT just as much as we watch our southern border.

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DrGadget

11:01 pm January 3, 2019 at 11:01 pm

They may be worried about it in the future, but right now it’s nowhere near the same level of emergency as the Mexican border.

(from the article)
“He’s not admitting that 521,090 people were apprehended illegally sneaking across the southern border in 2018, compared with a paltry 324 people crossing illegally from Canada”

The Mexican border is 1600 times worse than the Canadian border. For now, we can realistically assign agents to track down invaders from Canada, but there’s no way we can do that with Mexico. And if we had practically no border security at all (like with Canada) the number of invaders from Mexico would doubtless be in the millions.

By comparison, Canada isn’t even in the same league as Mexico. It’s several orders of magnitude more secure. That might change tomorrow, but today it’s a fact.

Taken from Trump’s original immigration paper that was posted on his website during his campaign, regarding how Mexico would be paying for the wall:
– Impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages
– Increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them)
– Increase fees on all border crossing cards
– of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays)
– Increase fees on all NAFTA worker visa from Mexico (another major source of overstays – I’m not sure how this applies with the new USMCA deal)
– Increase fees at ports of entry to the US from Mexico

Only mocking haters say Trump thinks Mexico will write a check before we start building.

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